#arceus

[assumptionprime]

There is no escaping Arceus' plans to make you a protagonist.

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#art #comic #pokemon #arceus #akari #pokemon akari #pokemon legends za

[bottle-of-harpoons]

My theory for how Pokemon Z - A will start.

#pokemon #fanart #pokemon fanart #nintendo #game freak #pokemon day 2024 #pokemon presents #arceus #braxien #pokemon serena #arceus can't stop kidnapping children #pokemon z #pokemon z a

[xxtc-96xx]

I imagine this as a scenario

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#pokemon #arceus #dialga #palkia #giratina

[reestallized]

Mochi Mayhem when

#pokemon #reestallized drew this #reestal likes to draw #pokemon fanart #pokemon protagonist #pokemon scarlet and violet #the hidden treasure of area zero #pokememe #rival kieran #trainer juliana #arceus #pecharunt

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #pokemon #pokémon #kirlia #sableye #duskull #drifloon #smoliv #arceus #goomy #5k #10k #15k #20k #25k

[dinoserious]

cast shadow

#more of this. the inevitability of it all #i was intending to do comm work today but was struck flat by some of the most debilitating lower back pain i think ive ever had #wanted to get something drawn anyways so heres a rough shot at a visual that was haunting me #poke mythos #baby gira #pokemon #giratina #arceus #sketch

[critterbitter]

re: your thoughts on legendaries (which is very cool and based) what’s your take on the differences between legends:arceus giratina and platinum giratina, especially since you defined them as hating the world? specifically the bit where giratina (at least seemingly) actively defended the world from cyrus trying to destroy it, after trying to do the same thing with volo’s help centuries prior?

Weird ghost worm upon yee (AND MORE ART BELOW CUT!)

Anyways, here’s my mad ramblings about Giratina and Arceus’s backstory.

Tldr: Giratina’s a conglomerate of angry souls scorned by Arceus.

(Here’s the playlist. It’s all about worms.)

How it Started.

The original one has chosen favorites over the passage of time. Heroes, legends, protagonists…

Arceus intervenes for those it loves, and the consequences of a god touching the mortal world is devastating in its entirety. One act of divine intervention causes entire civilizations to collapse. One whispered suggestion drives an entire legacy insane.

So Arceus, paralyzed by its love for the mortal world, acts very little, learning from its mistakes. Apathy soaks through every motion. And thus is the way of the world.

But people love the Originator. Religions are born from Arceus’s rare deeds, and generation on generation taught its benevolence. Imagine spending your entire life chasing after that golden light. Imagine knowing its real and there, and it loves you.

Imagine begging it for help, and seeing it turn away when you need it most.

I think those people would feel very abandoned indeed, if they spent their lives worshipping, and receiving no response at all.

Giratina is born from the abandoned, the lost, and the angry. They’re a hundred thousand souls who’s adoration turned to spite. They’re an entity who demands for Arceus to look at them, so they can finally rest.

Arcues can not look at them in full, because if it does Giratina will fade.

(Scio, beloved. For I can not let you go.)

So the Original One banishes the Unwanted Beast into the distortion world, and Giratina seethes, and starves, and screams.

(Here are two truths about the Beast Between Dimensions—

1. Some part of them still loves Arceus. Arceus is their anchor, after all— the sole reason why they exist, why they are. But Arceus can not love it back in a way that matters, and that hurts.

2. Giratina is made of a thousand voices. Some of these voices remember that there’s a world above. They miss it.)

Why Giratina attacked Hisui in PLA:

PLA Giratina’s not a new god, but they’re very, very bitter and barely coherent on a good day. Volo serves as a conduct to help unite the broiling mass of ghosts against Arceus, and thus Giratina’s hatred overcomes any flickering affections they have for the land.

It doesn’t help that Arceus intervened for Hisui, sending Akari to directly stop Volo from summoning Giratina.

(As for Volo, well.

Imagine being a child who was thrown into the future due to Palkia and Dialga’s fits, who learned his people (his world) no longer exist beyond a shadow in the history books and a single, bitter lore keeper.

Volo doesn’t remember his original culture beyond vague imprints and singing praises to Sinnoh, but he knew he was loved, and he knew his family is dust four hundred years in the past. There’s a special sort of rage in him that echoes Giratinas.)

(Why did you abandon my people, Arceus? What kind of god are you, to leave those who love you so callously behind?)

(Maybe some part of Giratina recognizes Volo, beyond a feeling of kinship.

Maybe some part of Giratina grieves because it recognized the child Volo was.)

When Volo gets his pound of flesh, (when he realizes Arceus is not beholden to him, that the inherent alien morality Arceus holds is not a personal slight), Giratina will finally rest.

Anyways what I’m trying to say is: Arceus is never a person, but a nebulous embodiment of the connection shared between pokemon and humans. It tries to experience what it’s supposed to embody, but millennia of watching people be and cease has given it choice paralysis, apathy, and a hoarding issue. If something lasts forever next to it? Good.

Giratina was once a person. (Correction, a LOT of persons.) They don’t think very linearly either, but they have context on mortal matters and are thus the more benevolent and malicious of the two. One day, time will smooth them into something like Arceus. We can only hope the two keep each other in check.

THE DIFFERENCE OF LEGENDS ARCEUS GIRATINA VS PLATINUM PEARL GIRATINA

If the ancient version of giratina is an angry conglomerate of ghosts scorned by Arceus, the modern iteration of Giratina’s a creature that’s more settled in its skin and more assured in its duties. Giratina still has beef with Arceus, but they unionized into one being who’s love of the mortal world has triumphed over its ancestral grudge. One might even postulate they have shifted their anchor from Sinnoh the god, to Sinnoh the place.

((We call this character developement. Good for you, weird ghost worm!))

(((FULL DISCLOSURE, VOLO BEING FROM THE PAST IS INSPIRED FROM FOXFALL. You know. The fic that got me into this fandom. Please give it some love.)))

#critterbitter screams into the void #pokemon #ask #mailbox #Giratina and arceus #man #might be subject to change but mmm #thinking about how pokemon canonically has ghost moshpit pokemon #looking at spiritomb #and pallosand #ghost pokemon are weird #oops! would you look at that! #chandelure and giratina as foils (they both have anchors who willingly and unwillingly abandon them) #giratina #arceus #pla lore #pla #art #sketchbook #myart #not submas related (but still worth the brainrot) #volo mention #pokemon art #giratina redesign #legendary pokemon

[raitnrong]

😭😭 this nemona tweet >>>>>>

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #nemona #arceus #no fr everyone in the qrts saying nemo hands down ofc 😭😭😭 #i love her n arven n penny so much tho 😭

[joyfulness03]

You ever think about how Farigiraf is the same height as Arceus?

#pokemon #farigiraf #arceus #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon art #pokemon fanart #girafarig #wow an original post for once! #my art #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon legends

[deathflare]

legendz

#pokemon #I DONT KNOW HOW TO TAG THESE #arceus #giratina #dialga #palkia #ho oh #lugia #suicune #raikou #entei #miraidon #koraidon

[kharmii]

Art credit: E_Volution_@Evolution_ygo Twitter.

#pokemon: legends arceus #akari #volo #professor laventon #rei #adaman #irida #cyllene #melli #iscan #mai #sabi #enamorus #giratina #arceus #leafeon #uxie #mesprit #azelf #chatot #typhlosion #hisuian typhlosion #hisuian decidueye #decidueye #chingling #abra #commander kamado #sliggoo #samurott #hisuian samurott

[galaxysketches]

They're not gonna let us leave

#submas #pokemon #legends arceus #ingo #arceus #akari #dialga #palkia #yes this is a SU ref lol #1k

[smashwolfen]

I noticed something really REALLY cool about Legends arceus while looking up references, and it's so little, I don't know how many other folks have noticed it!!

The pokedex you get at the beginning of your journey;

Perfect, crisp and brand new! So many pages to fill! Untouched by anyone ever, the first to ever exist! The original pokedex.

But at the end, with a completed pokedex;

The title of the book is all ripped and damaged! It's been through so many surveys and treks out in hisui's wilderness! The edges of the blue cover are faded and dulling, maybe got wet a few times with run ins with outbreaks, being jostled around in a pack exploring around the region. The black binder holding it together after all this time is equally as banged up, probably barely keeping the stuffed pages inside safe and tucked away, but still doing its job.

This is the first ever pokedex, this is the one that began the understanding of pokemon as we know it, bringing humans and pokemon together as friends in the distant future. Before technology advanced and made the pokedex we were first introduced to in Kanto so many years ago.

It's falling apart and has been waterlogged a few times, it's recorded so much and survived raging lords, hordes or pokemon, alphas, an exile, gods of time and space, a banished deity, and faced almighty sinnoh.

And it was written, filled out, carried and protected all this time, by a kid who did their best to help the professor who first met them in Hisui.

And it survived.

#ALL BECASUE I WANTED TO MAKE A DRAWING ACCURATE AND I WENT #WAIT A MINUTE IT WASNT ALWAYS RIPPED WAS IT?? #and bam i saw it #legends has so many little details within it that give everything so much character #THEY GAVE THE POKEDEX CHARACTER AS YOU JOURNEYED THROUGH HISUI #IM EMOTIONAL ABOUT A BANGED UP OLD BOOK IM NOT OK XD #pokemon #pokemon legends arceus #arceus #legends arceus #legends of arceus #pla #hisui #pokedex #survey corps #galaxy team #professor laventon #pla spoilers #pokemon legends #smish pokemon

[retrogamingblog2]

#pokemon #hisui #pokemon legends arceus #nintendo #switch #kanto #gameboy #hisuian #sinnoh #ds #nintendo ds #gaming #video games #anime #funny #lol #humor #meme #arceus #arc phone #pokemon red #pokemon blue #pokemon yellow #90s #retro #pokemon go #pokemon let's go #nintendo switch #retrogaming

[wra1thguards]

arceus & giratina for a local art show!

#pokemon #arceus #giratina #sinnoh #my art #dppt

[claitea]

"The sweetness of her voice speaks to Volo's love for her."

Then perhaps he'd like to hear it himself when it matters most.

~

left it a little open ended because i couldnt decide how exactly this happens:

1) arceus straight up does give him the ability to understand pokemon. it does not consider this either a blessing or a curse. it is simply allowing him to hear what they've been saying this whole time.

2) going off how iris only understands the hearts of dragons as opposed to n's ability to directly translate, maybe understanding pokemon is some sort of hyper-empathy thing. volo gains such a strong connection with his pokemon through fighting god he can actually understand what they feel

3) his guilty conscience catches up with him and he's imagining this just based on what n told him

either way. get guilt tripped idiot

#clai's art #pokemon #pokemon legends arceus #volo #pokemon volo #togekiss #arceus #yknow how pikachu says ''pikapi'' whenever he refers to ash in the anime bc it sounds like ''satoshi'' #wrote ''toto'' as one of the things togekiss says bc its close to ''volo'' :) #EDIT: DAMN I FORHOT TO SAY. thank you to my friend who suggested using the royal we for arceus bc it is SO cool sounding